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BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTOR

Donald Hill

First name

Donald

Last name

Hill

Bibliography entries by this contributor

Hill, Donald, Aḥmad Al-Ḥassan, Maqbul Ahmed, and A. Iskandar. 2001. “Mechanical Technology”. In The Different Aspects of Islamic Culture, Vol. 4: Science and Technology in Islam. Part 2: Technology and Applied Sciences.:165-92. Beirut: UNESCO.
Hill, Donald. 1997. “Mūsā, Banū”. In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, ed. Helaine Selin, 150-51. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Hill, Donald. 1993. Islamic Science and Engineering. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Hill, Donald. 1993. “Mūsā, Banū”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 7:640-41. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Hill, Donald. 1986. “Ḳusṭā B. Lūkā al‐Baʿlabakkī”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, 2ndnd ed., 5:529-30. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Ibn Shākir, Banū, and Donald Hill. 1979. The Book of Ingenious Devices [Kitāb Al-Ḥiyal]. Dordrecht; Boston: D. Reidel.
Hill, Donald. 1977. “A Treatise on Machines by Ibn Muʿadh Abu ʿAbd Allah Al-Jayyani”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 1 (1): 33-46.
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